Kirjahaku

To the casual outsider, Hill Farm is a rural idyll and the perfect retreat from urban life. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother.

A funny and poignant account of life in Buenos Aires, by a young prize-winning writer.

A humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer.When in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid, the post-dictatorship ebullience was at its height. Pornography and soft drugs were legalised alongside more basic freedoms, such as divorce, party-affiliation and kissing in the street. In 1998 she returned to make a journey through the great cities and towns of central Spain - Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca and others. With the new prosperity, much has changed. But much has also endured, as she learns from the people she meets, who include a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers and a Castilian separatist. She also discovers that Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE' published in 1605 and the most translated book after the Bible - is a work of genius which still helps to explain the Spanish character: today's Spaniards still suffer from Don Quixote's delusions, and are as stubborn, inflexible and unrealistic as they have always been.

Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside. A highly original book about writing, writers and what drives us to want to put lives into words.

Clever, funny and captivating The Writing School is a memoir told by way of a fictionalised account of the author's time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside. A highly original book about writing, writers and what drives us to want to put lives into words.